Check out the moon—in all its phases—in this new Level 4 Penguin-Smithsonian nonfiction reader.

There are myths about it. Men have landed on it. Just about everybody has gazed at it in wonder. But what is the moon? Where did it come from? What’s it made of? Find out in this lively reader about the celestial body that’s so familiar and yet so mysterious.
James Buckley Jr. has written more than fifty books for kids, including Who Was Ernest Shackleton? and Who Was Roberto Clemente? View titles by James Buckley, Jr.

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Check out the moon—in all its phases—in this new Level 4 Penguin-Smithsonian nonfiction reader.

There are myths about it. Men have landed on it. Just about everybody has gazed at it in wonder. But what is the moon? Where did it come from? What’s it made of? Find out in this lively reader about the celestial body that’s so familiar and yet so mysterious.

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James Buckley Jr. has written more than fifty books for kids, including Who Was Ernest Shackleton? and Who Was Roberto Clemente? View titles by James Buckley, Jr.

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